From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Circa v5.2 this started to fail:
# perf trace -e /wb/augmented_raw_syscalls.o
event syntax error: '/wb/augmented_raw_syscalls.o'
\___ Operation not permitted
(add -v to see detail)
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
Usage: perf trace [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf trace [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
or: perf trace record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf trace record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
-e, --event <event> event/syscall selector. use 'perf list' to list
available events
#
In verbose mode we some -EPERM when creating a BPF map:
# perf trace -v -e /wb/augmented_raw_syscalls.o
<SNIP>
libbpf: failed to create map (name: '__augmented_syscalls__'): Operation not
permitted
libbpf: failed to load object '/wb/augmented_raw_syscalls.o'
bpf: load objects failed: err=-1: (Operation not permitted)
event syntax error: '/wb/augmented_raw_syscalls.o'
\___ Operation not permitted
(add -v to see detail)
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
Usage: perf trace [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf trace [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
or: perf trace record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf trace record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
-e, --event <event> event/syscall selector. use 'perf list' to list
available events
#
If we bumped 'ulimit -l 128' to get it from the 64k default to double that, it
worked, so use the recently added rlimit__bump_memlock() helper:
# perf trace -e /wb/augmented_raw_syscalls.o -e open*,*sleep sleep 1
0.000 ( 0.007 ms): sleep/28042 openat(dfd: CWD, filename:
"/etc/ld.so.cache", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 3
0.022 ( 0.004 ms): sleep/28042 openat(dfd: CWD, filename:
"/lib64/libc.so.6", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 3
0.201 ( 0.007 ms): sleep/28042 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "", flags:
RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 3
0.241 (1000.421 ms): sleep/28042 nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffd6c3e6ed0)
= 0
#
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
---
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 1aa2ed096f65..4f0bbffee05f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <api/fs/tracing_path.h>
#include <bpf/bpf.h>
#include "util/bpf_map.h"
+#include "util/rlimit.h"
#include "builtin.h"
#include "util/cgroup.h"
#include "util/color.h"
@@ -3864,6 +3865,15 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv)
goto out;
}
+ /*
+ * Parsing .perfconfig may entail creating a BPF event, that may need
+ * to create BPF maps, so bump RLIM_MEMLOCK as the default 64K setting
+ * is too small. This affects just this process, not touching the
+ * global setting. If it fails we'll get something in 'perf trace -v'
+ * to help diagnose the problem.
+ */
+ rlimit__bump_memlock();
+
err = perf_config(trace__config, &trace);
if (err)
goto out;
--
2.21.0
